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Best Picture nominees offer a dark portrait of the American Dream

By Adrienne LaFrance, Digital First Media

Posted:
02/25/2014 08:11:31 AM MST

Updated:
02/25/2014 08:11:34 AM MST

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This is America. It is many things at the same time. (Thinkstock)A con man is standing in an art gallery, pointing at Rembrandt's 17th-century portrait of Saint Bartholomew. It's a fake, the man says, a feat of forgery so astounding that it calls into question the value of truth: "Who's a master; the painter or the forger?"The scammer is Irving Rosenfeld, played by Christian Bale in “American Hustle,” a film that raises questions that are at the heart of several ...

Missy Franklin, Jenny Simpson, Adeline Gray and three other Colorado women could be big players at the 2016 Rio OlympicsWhen people ask Missy Franklin for her thoughts about the Summer Olympics that will begin a year from Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, she hangs a warning label on her answer.